A federal appeals court has affirmed the corruption convictions of disgraced ex-Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and his former top deputy Christopher McPartland, his public corruption bureau chief, who were found guilty of covering up a high-profile police beating.
A panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan issued the ruling Friday, rejecting Spota and McPartland’s arguments seeking to overturn their convictions for blocking the federal investigation into ex-Suffolk Police Chief James Burke, who later pleaded guilty to beating a handcuffed suspect who stole Burke’s bag of porn, ammunition and sex toys.
